Waiting For The Sun Rushden Road Bletsoe Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1QW
Refused on 14 May 2026
Council decision: Certificate Refused
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Proposal
Certificate confirm existing lawful use of land and buildings for Class B2 General Industrial purposes, specifically the servicing, maintenance, and repair of motor vehicles (including mechanical work, welding, and fabrication), with associated internal storage and ancillary yard use.
- Received
- 19 January 2026
- Public comments
- 19
- Council
- Bedford Borough Council
- Ward
- Riseley
- ReceivedReceived19 Jan
- ValidatedValidated6 Feb
- Consult.Consultation11 Mar
- TargetTarget Date27 Mar
- DecidedDecided14 May
Decided in 97 days (council typically 49)
About this application
This is an application to amend a permission at Waiting For The Sun Rushden Road Bletsoe Bedford Bedfordshire MK44 1QW. Bedford has handled 390 applications of this type. This one was decided in 115 days, 9 weeks longer than Bedford's typical decision time. There are no previous applications recorded at this address. In the past year there have been 40 applications across Riseley. We hold 682 applications in total for the MK44 postcode area.
71% of amendment applications at Bedford Borough Council were approved. Across all application types, the council typically decides in about 7 weeks (median).
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Application details
- Postcode
- MK44 1QW
- Application type
- Cert of Lawful Use and Dev (existing)
- Scale / size
- Small
- Parish
- Bletsoe
Planning application dates
- Date validated
- 6 February 2026
- Consultation expiry
- 11 March 2026
- Consultation start
- 10 February 2026
- Consultation end
- 11 March 2026
- Neighbour consultation start
- 11 February 2026
- Neighbour consultation end
- 11 March 2026
- Target decision date
- 27 March 2026
Applicant and agent
- Agent address
- Unit 25 Corbridge Crescent London E2 9EZ
Planning decision
- Statutory period
- 49 days
Additional information
- Planning Portal ID
- PP-14226981
- Documents
- 75
Site constraints
Designations that overlap or adjoin the site outline.
- Flood zone 2: Medium probability (rivers and sea)Part of the site
Not published by this council, so not checked: Article 4 directions and tree preservation orders. Ask the council if these matter.
Also checked, none recorded (22)
flood storage areas, conservation areas, listed buildings, green belt, scheduled monuments, World Heritage Sites, World Heritage Site buffer zones, registered parks and gardens, registered battlefields, Heritage at Risk entries, nutrient neutrality catchments, national parks, National Landscapes, SSSIs, Special Areas of Conservation, Special Protection Areas, Ramsar sites, ancient woodland, national nature reserves, local nature reserves, heritage coasts and brownfield registers.
A guide only, from official open data; it is not a planning search. Flood zones cover rivers and sea, not surface water.
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